8-Start for Wood Bay-p5

Unlike Campbell, I have the advantage
of an accurate map of the region in front of me and can see what Campbell
believed was a glacier flowing from Mount Melbourne to Evans Cove was two
distinct features.One was a large
glacier coming from near the Polar Plateau, not Mount Melbourne, with ice
falls, passing the west side of Mount Melbourne and exiting as an ice tongue
south into the sea; the other was a second ice field in a pass heading
south-west and joining with other ice flows exiting to the sea at Hell’s
Gate.The latter is now known as
Browning Pass.

It is easy to see that from the sea,
with heavy ice in the North Terra Nova Bay area, it would have been easy to
make such an interpretation. Later, when the party was travelling up the
Browning Pass with Mt Melbourne in the distance, it would have continued to
look like a glacier.

Having said this, Campbell's decision
to follow the Browning Pass seems sensible as it was the first pathway that
gave some chance of crossing around the lower slopes of Mount Melbourne to the
Wood Bay area.

Lastest Addition

20 January 2012- Boomerang Glacier climb posted on the 100th anniversary of the actual climb on 20 January 1912.19 January 2012-Boomerang to Boomerang posted today ready for the posting tomorrow of the Boomerang Glacier climb by Priestley, Abbott, and Browning on the 100th anniversary.

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